Project Management
Copyright
Digital Graphics
Illustrator Workspace
Miscellany
100

The boundaries of a project, the things that need to be done to consider a project "complete."

What is Project Scope?

100

The process to obtain copyright for a creative work.

What is nothing at all?

Alternatively, what is creating it in the first place?

100

The spacing between a specific pair of characters.

What is kerning?

100

Where you go to find your Properties panel if it gets closed accidentally.

What is the Window menu?

100

The meaning behind the colorful little boxes in the Layers panel.

What is it means that that object is selected (or if it's a tiny box, that only some of the items inside are selected)?

200

A critical document for any project, decides project scope, client goals, deliverables, and responsibilities.

What is a Project Plan?

200

True/False

A picture being labeled "Creative Commons" means you can use it however you like without violating copyright.

False, Creative Commons licenses often come with conditions.

200

The ideal color mode for graphics that will end up on the internet or displayed on screens.

What is RGB?

200

The way you change the units of an already-created document.

What is either the Document Setup window or the Properties panel when nothing is selected? Double points if you got both.

200

The layer that will be deleted when the trash can icon is clicked.

What is the Logo layer?

300

The four stages in the project management process.

What are Defining, Planning, Doing, and Reviewing?

300

The specific permission needed to use someone's likeness or image in a project.

What is a model release?

300

The best Color Mode to use when creating designs that will be printed.

What is CMYK?

300

The tool (or menu) to use to select multiple objects with similar appearances.

What is the Magic Wand tool?

Or, what is the Select menu?

300

The place you can find Bleed settings.

What is Document Setup?

For bonus points, what is the New Document dialog box?

400

Uncontrolled changes in a project's scope, usually because it doesn't have a clearly defined Project Plan.

What is Scope Creep?

400

The credit some copyright owners ask for when you use their work.

What is attribution?

400

The Illustrator setting that controls how many pixels are used for certain rasterizing effects.

What is Effect > Document Raster Effects Settings...?

400

The icon you click on to change the color mode of the color mixer.

What are three little lines in the corner?

400

When using a text box or Type Along a Path, a red plus sign indicates that this has happened.

What is text overflow?

500

An order or request that adds and removes content from the original scope of work.

What is a Change Order?

500

The four license elements that can make up a Creative Commons license.

What are Attribution, ShareAlike, NonCommercial, and NoDerivatives?

500

The margin of error for trimming a printed design.

Or the sacrificial area around your design to avoid the blank page from sneaking in around the edges?

What is Bleed?

500

The difference between the Scissor and Knife tools.

What is

Okay so the scissor tool snips a path into two wherever you click on it.

The knife tool cuts through a whole object along a path that you draw.

?

500

The one thing that the Magic Wand tool looks for by default.

What is fill color?